Note: Deprecated Groups API for Facebook
As of Graph API v19.0, Meta has deprecated the Facebook Groups API. As a result, the Facebook Groups publishing feature has been removed from the plugin. Auto publishing is supported only for Facebook Pages. Since this change is enforced by Meta, no alternative solution is currently available for publishing to Facebook Groups.
At present we need to submit the facebook app for review to get it approved. We can use the approved app in the plugin.
We are introducing an alternate solution where you can use an already approved app for publishing your wordpress posts to facebook.
Please note that “This solution is a paid service and the price starts from USD 10 per year”.
The procedure is given below.
Step 1: Premium Plugin
In the facebook account section in the plugin, please select the approved app option “Use smapsolutions.com’s facebook application”.
Please enter other details and save it.
Now click on the reauthenticate button.
It will display a popup and login to your fb account.
Step 1: Free Plugin
Please select the approved app option and click on the connect to xyzscripts account button.
Now it will display a popup to login to xyzscripts or register to xyzscripts.
If you are creating a new account, it will send a confirmation mail to the registered email and click on the confirmation link.
After confirming the email, please save it and click on the “authorize” button.
Step 2 : Applicable to both Premium and Free Plugins
Now you can purchase the SMAP Package. The price depends on the number of facebook accounts, API calls per hour per account and number of facebook pages per account.
For publishing a simple text message, it will take 1 API call, Upload image option will take 2-3 API calls and attach link option takes 1-2 API calls.
| Posting Method | No. of API calls required in Facebook |
Simple Text Message. | 1 |
Attach Link | 1-2 ( if clear cache enabled ) |
Upload Image | 2-3 |
Multi Photo Upload | 2 + 1 x No.of images |
Upload Video | (size/5)*1 +2 |
After purchasing the package and successful payment it will redirect to Facebook authorisation flow.
After Facebook authorization is completed, facebook pages will be listed.
Select pages and click the continue button,it will redirect to the edit-account page,where the selected pages displayed.
Now save the account and it is ready to publish to the selected fb pages.
Error cases on authorization procedure
Click on continue without selecting pages
Select at least one Facebook Page to continue. If no page is selected, an error message will be displayed, and you cannot proceed to the next step.